Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen safety, students with quavering voices and parents shaking with anger appealed to President Donald Trump to set politics aside and protect American school children from the scourge of gun violence.

The crisis in Myanmar and reported massacres of Rohingya Muslims are the consequence of a society encouraged to hate and a lack of global leadership on human rights, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday that Raj Nair, its president for North America, was leaving the company immediately after an internal investigation found his behaviour was "inconsistent with the company's code of conduct."

An explosion rips through a ferry as it unloads passengers in the Caribbean beach city of Playa del Carmen, hurting as many as 25 people, but authorities say none of the injuries were life-threatening.

A subsidiary of British banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is running a pilot program using an artificial intelligence (AI) powered "digital human" to help customers with basic banking questions.

On the third day of talks at the Munich Security Conference, any optimists still wandering the halls were stopped cold by the barbed battles of the Middle East. In attempting diplomatic inroads, the result was a display of intractable disputes over drones, borders, military spending and loyalty to foreign powers.

Israeli media reported Wednesday that one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants has turned state witness and will incriminate him in corruption allegations, the latest in a dizzying series of developments that threaten to topple the beleaguered Israeli leader.

U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence was all set to hold a history-making meeting with North Korean officials during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but Kim Jong-Un's government cancelled at the last minute, the Trump administration said Tuesday.

As Israel and Poland are locked in a diplomatic dispute over a Polish anti-defamation law, CBC correspondent Derek Stoffel talked to a Canadian historian about his research into Polish involvement in crimes during the Second World War.